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Aboriginal rights a threat to Canada's resource agenda, documents reveal
2014-03-04 11:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Canadian government is increasingly worried that the growing clout of aboriginal peoples rights could obstruct its aggressive resource development plans, documents reveal. Since 2008, the Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs has run a risk management program to evaluate and respond to significant risks to its agenda, including assertions of treaty rights, the rising expectations of aboriginal peoples, and new legal precedents at odds with the governments policies. Yearly government reports...
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Canadian Energy Companies Struggle Aboriginal Needs Pipeline Projects
2013-12-09 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: On its 4,000-kilometre path across the country, TransCanada Corp.'s Energy East's pipeline would traverse the traditional territory of 180 different aboriginal communities, each of whom must be consulted and have their concerns accommodated as part of the company's effort at winning project approval. The Energy East plan is to bring 1.1 million barrels per day of western crude to eastern Canadian refineries and export terminals; it has been touted by politicians and its proponents as a nation-building...
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Top court agrees to hear case over clear-cutting on traditional aboriginal lands
2013-09-20 00:20:06| Paper - Topix.net
The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear a long-running dispute over clear-cutting on a First Nation's traditional territory in northwestern Ontario.
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Australia: Plan to use Aboriginal land as a nuclear waste dump is flawed and misguided
2013-07-31 02:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: This week, federal resource minister Gary Gray is talking radioactive waste with Aboriginal people in remote central Australia. Six years ago an Aboriginal clan group, the Northern Land Council (NLC) and the then Howard government signed a secret deal to develop Australias first purpose-built national radioactive waste dump at Muckaty, north of Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory. The commercial-in-confidence plan saw the clan group "volunteer" an area of the shared Muckaty Land Trust for...
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Launch Of Aboriginal Business Award For Forest Industry
2013-05-31 05:40:41| pulpandpaperonline News Articles
The Forest Products Association ofCanada(FPAC) and the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business (CCAB) today announced that nominations are open for this year's Aboriginal Business Leadership Award
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